the america's longest war an effort to turn what happened in afghanistan and the exit into art so americans don't forget the sacrifices of our troops there go last out play.com. most of the actors veterans still tickets available for show in chicago this weekend. >> judge jeanine: in chicago, good to know. >> jessica: "special report" is not up next. have a nice weekend. everybody. we'll see you monday. ♪ >> bret: good evening, welcome to "special report," i'm bret baier. breaking tonight the latest development in the investigation concerning the leak at the u.s. supreme court over last summer's roe v. wade decision. this occurs as pro-life demonstrators from around the country rallied today in washington. it was the first march for life since the supreme court overturned the landmark abortion ruling. we have fox team coverage tonight. shannon bream will tell us what we are learning about that leak investigation. but we begin at the high court with lucas tomlinson and the march for life. good evening, lucas. >> good evening, bret. thousands marched here at the supreme court in celebration.

now they want to take the abortion fight to the states. >> pro-life supporters across the country descended on the nation's capitol 50th annual march for life and since roe v. wade was overturned. the dobbs decision brought abortion back to the state level where many think the next fight begins. >> we got to get to the state levels now. right? that's the -- the emphasis. that's why we are going in front of the capital is to show at each state level this is not over. it's only the beginning. >> currently 13 states have a complete abortion ban. five have partial bans. six states are in limbo pending current litigation. abortion is legal in the remaining states. new house majority leader steve scalise says despite the supreme court's ruling the issue is far from settled. >> the court didn't get rid of abortion. they just allowed this debate to continue with elected leaders instead of judges. >> the new republican majority

in the house wasted little time passing pro-life legislation. >> the house did pass the born alive bill and wagner's bill and, of course, a resolution to demand that the terrorists against pregnancy care centers, pro-life offices and churches be investigated. >> mississippi's attorney general lynn fitch argued the dobbs case before the supreme court. >> this is the new chapter we get to write in history. we have government to be talking and taking action on affordable, accessible child care. will workplace flexibility. child support enforcement to make the dads equally responsible for hirst children. >> making first ever appearance at the rally nfl coach tony dungy talked to the crowd and touched on damar hamlin who almost lost his life during a recent game. >> that game was canceled, why? because a life was at stake. and people wanted to see that life saved. >> today's march for life was

peaceful, with just a few counter protesters showing up. bret? >> bret: lucas tomlinson outside the live court. lucas, thanks. let's bring in chief legal correspondent anchor of "fox news sunday" shannon bream. good evening, shannon. we heard from the supreme court marshall today about this investigation. >> we did. bret, one of the questions left over after their internal report released yesterday were the justices among the dozens of employees who were questioned? so today the marshal stepped up and answered that question. she is the one who has led this internal investigation. she said this during the course of the investigation i spoke with each of the justices. several on multiple occasions. the justices actively cooperated in this process asking questions and answering mine. i followed up on all credible leads none' of which implicated the justices or their spouses. on this basis i did not believe it was necessary to ask the justices to sign sworn affidavits but, bret, everybody

else they interviewed did swine sworn affidavits. >> bret: on "fox news sunday" immigration. >> there are already calls in the house in fact articles have been filed of impeachment against dhs secretary mayorkas. republicans don't seem united on whether they are going to press for impeachment or not. but what both parties are united about is that the border is a mess. we have two of the co-chairs of the problem solvers caucus. we have got republican congressman fitzpatrick. democratic national committee congressman going to sit down and have a conversation about as you know the idea of common ground and whether there is any to be found on the debt ceiling, immigration, or anything else. bret? >> bret: a lot to talk about. shannon, thanks. >> shannon: see you sunday. ♪ ♪ >> we have new information tonight about how many of the men and women charged with maintaining the nation's security along the southern border say they have lost confidence in the man in charge of homeland security as just

mentioned by shannon. a significant number of border patrol agents support republican efforts to impeach secretary alejandro mayorkas. this comes as we see new video illustrating just how rampant human smuggling has become. correspondent griff jenkins has the story tonight from eagle pass, texas. [siren] >> driver went other that way. >> in the span of six hours. in the del rio sector, with fox news cameras embedded with texas dps. troopsers stopped three separate smuggling attempts recovering more than a dozen migrants and arresting two individuals for human smuggling. in the rio grande valley, fox cameras trailed troopers and border agents as they pursue migrants evading apprehension. >> this is truly a disaster down here and we need help. >> border patrol counsel union vice president says agents on the front lines have lost faith in the biden administration's border policies and are joining house g.o.p. calls to impeach

dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas. >> if it the very least puts a bigger spotlight what is happening down here, hopefully gets other resources and maybe gets border patrol agents out of the asylum business and putting us back in the field, then we are all for it. >> for the cartels, it's business as usual. this 22-year-old mexican national named edu says he paid $1,000 to cross the border. owns another 5,000 when he reaches his family in dallas and did not hold back when i asked him if he feared the cartels. >> yes. i am somewhat scared but i have to take the risk. >> in the cartel. [speaking spanish] >> the bad guys, the cartels, of course. we have access codes that we have to give them on our trip or we will get kidnapped and bad things happen. >> and secretary mayorkas has more to answer for. house oversight committee chairman james comer sent him a letter this morning requesting all dhs documents and/or

communications regarding the removal of migrants from sites in el paso prior to president biden's visit. bret? >> bret: griff jenkins live along the border tonight. griff, thank you. later in the hour, we will look at how the actions of drug cartels are extending far north of the mexican border. also tonight, president biden remains defiant over the scandal involving his mishandling, alleged mishandling of classified documents he insists there is no real story here and he did nothing wrong. critics say his position calls into question the president's claim that he take such matters very seriously. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has details tonight live from the north lawn, good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. moments ago the president left for rehoboth opting now to go wilmington. reporters shouted questions after him but he just walked on by. >> the press secretary backing up president biden. >> he does, indeed, take classified documents seriously.

i'm just not going to go beyond that. >> after his musings on the outcome of the investigation his administration is broadly refusing to talk about. >> i think you're going to find there's nothing there. >> threatening to undermine biden's other statements that he takes classification laws seriously. >> i have no regrets. >> it's a question biden himself directed at president jimmy carter's nominee for cia director back in 1977 when biden was a senator on the intelligence committee and sided with republicans to kill ted sore renson's nomination. biden dug up an affidavit showing sorenson mishandled classified documents for jfk biography and asked at the confirmation hearing does he respect and understand the rule under which he will serve? i'm not sure whether or not mr. sorensen could be indicted or convicted under the espionage statutes or fired from his white house job if that were the issue. those same questions are now being asked of biden by the house intelligence committee saying the mere discovery of biden'sed comply's request for

national security damage assessment is still going ignored 10 days later. despite refusals to officially comment, the administration may tacitly be trying to pin this on biden's aides from when he was vice president. "the washington post" reports kathy chung, biden's long-time executive assistant, confided to associates that she is distressed that she might have inadvertently been involved in moving or storing classified material at the center. the post crites person briefed on chung's account suggesting someone inside the government is pointing fingers at chung and it's sinking in. >> somebody made a mistake at some point inadvertently transferred that is the clear implication from everything you've seen. everything that you have read. >> the president did make some other news today. he invited house speaker kevin mccarthy to what he called a little discussion to talk about the national debt. mccarthy tweeted that he would accept the president's invitation this evening and

looks forward to a discussion about how to responsibly raise the debt ceiling, bret. >> bret: jacqui, the president has been spending a lot of weekends in wilmington, delaware. the focus of a lot of this investigation. this weekend he goes rehoboth beach, right. >> that's right. we asked the press secretary today if the documents had anything to do with that, maybe he doesn't want to go to wilmington where those documents were found. she did not want to answer that question and once again referred us to the white house counsel, bret. >> bret: that's a common refrain. okay, jacqui, thank you. job cuts continue at big tech companies. google says it is laying off 12,000 employees, that's about 6% of its workforce. that adds to the tens of thousands of other job losses recently announced by microsoft, amazon, facebook parent meta and other tech firms. that news didn't spook the markets though, a rally for tech stocks sent wall street investigators home for the weekend significant gains. the dow surged 331.

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♪ >> bret: we learned yesterday the u.s. is committing another $2.5 billion worth of aid to ukraine in its war against russia. some in congress feel the u.s. is giving away too much. others are urging the biden administration to work more quickly. tonight, how american allies are joining the effort to keep ukraine in the fight. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin looks into that. >> we have a window of opportunity here. >> just days after cia chief bill burns flew to ukraine to outline to president zelenskyy, russian plans for a massive offensive in the coming weeks, the u.s. hosted 54 allied defense chiefs at ramstein air

base in germany to donate more weapons to ukraine. >> i do think it's very, very possible for the ukrainians to run a significant tactical even operational to liberty as much ukrainian territory as possible. the latest $2.5 billion weapons package, one of the largest to date, includes eight areligion iser air defense systems. 59 bradley fighting vehicles. 90 striker vehicles. 5 3m wraps. # 50 up armored vehicles. # thousand rounds of artillery pledged a billion dollars and patriot missile system along with the netherlands. the u.k. became the first au country to donate a dozen challenger tanks. estonia spending 1 hers% of its g.d.p. on aid to ukraine. what's missing today an

announcement that the u.s. and germany would send tanks. a reporter asked president biden as he left the mayor's conference if he supports poland's call for germany to allow its leopard 2 tanks to be sent to ukraine. >> the ukrainians are going to get all the help they need. >> there are two thousand german made leopard two tanks in europe. fox news has learned a decision on sending tanks could come soon. >> i'm truly grateful to all of you for the weapons you have provided. >> but president zelenskyy pressed the contact group to expedite tank deliveries to speed the end of the war. >> the war started by russia does not allow delays. and i can thank you hundreds of times but hundreds of thank you are not hundreds of [inaudible] >> in total, the united states has committed $26.7 billion since russia invaded ukraine last february. for context, the u.s. spent $2.3 trillion in afghanistan

over 20 years. about $300 million a day. the weapons the u.s. has provided so far are the equivalent of less than 90 days of fighting in afghanistan. in terms of human costs, general milley said today russian casualties now number well over 100,000. bret? >> bret: that's a stunning number. jen, where is the u.s. getting some of the ammunition it's sending? >> the pentagon has requested u.s. forces korea send 155-millimeter howitzers artillery ammunition and other weapons to ukraine. the pentagon has also tapped into its stockpile of ammunition in israel. both israel and south korea have pledged not to send weapons themselves to ukraine. north korea, however, is sending weapons to russia for use against ukraine. the white house declassified these satellite photos from november showing 5 russian railcars which traveled to north korea nfc coordinator john kirby

said north korea loaded that train with infantry rockets and missiles for use by russia's wagner group in ukraine, a violation of existing sanctions. bret? >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. the treasury department will impose additional sanctions on that russian private defense company, the wagner group has been aiding moscow's military in its ongoing invasion of ukraine. the u.s. plans to designate the company as a transnational criminal organization to squeeze its ability to do business around the world. up next, here in the u.s., police in atlanta brace for possible violence targeting law enforcement. we'll tell you why they're concerned. first, beyond our borders tonight. social media personality andrew tate will be held in romania for another 30 days after a judge granted the prosecution's request for another extension. he was arrested more than three weeks ago on charges including human trafficking, rape, and being part of an organized crime group. more than 500 people are forced

to evacuate after a fire sweeps through a poor neighborhood in sol. julio. many of the homes are made from cardboard and booed. at least 60 were destroyed in north korea. no casualties have been reported. >> this is a live look at earth from the international space station. one of the big stories out there tonight, the first native american woman in space steps out for her first space walk. nicole mann and a japanese astronaut are installing equipment for additional solar panels, mann is a member of the while key of the round valley indian tribes in northern california. she will continue her mission at the space station for about another month. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight, we'll be right back. ♪

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>> bret: tonight we follow up on a story we told you about earlier this week. there is serious concern this evening in georgia about possible violence against law enforcement in the wake of a deadly incident near a construction site of a controversial police training facility in atlanta. correspondent jonathan serrie is in atlanta with the story. >> police are on aleft aalert aa shooting left a trooper hospitalized and 26-year-old protester dead it. happened just outside of atlanta wednesday as officers tried to remove ghob strarts from 85-acre site where they had set up camps, blocking construction of a new public safety training center also known by protesters as cop city. >> an individual, without warning, shot a georgia state patrol trooper. other law enforcement personnel returned fire and set the fence

and evacuated the trooper to a safe area. >> injured trooper remains hospitalized in stable condition with a wound to the abdomen. >> i want to thank our medics who were embedded with our swat team for their quick action. i'm certain that their quick action helped save his life. >> police arrested 7 protesters at the site all from out of state on charges of domestic terrible and criminal treps. twitter suspended a trespass account after it called for a night rage and reciprocal violence to be done to the police and their allies. but other protesters deny any connection to violence. >> do not the cops overtake this narrative that we are terrorists, that they shot one of our own in self-defense. we have to counter that. >> some of the groups and individuals trying to block the training center site environmental concerns while others impose the police presence it would bring to the area. project advocates say it will provide better training for

police and first responders that ultimately will make the community safer. >> and, bret, top georgia officials including the governor and director of the georgia bureau of investigations say they embrace the right to protest but cannot stand by when protesters resort to violence and jeopardize innocent lives. back to you. >> bret: jonathan serrie in atlanta, thank you. earlier this week a sheriff in central california blamed the biden administration's border policy force gang activity that may have contributed to the death of a half dozen people. tonight we look at just how pervasive drug cartels are becoming inside the u.s. here's national correspondent william la jeunesse. tthe less drugs we use the less drugs in. >> in 2019 the u.s. are vowed to fight the mexican cartels. billions of dollars later violence once contained there is here. >> they are here and they are dangerous. >> latest, a family executed cartel style near fresno. >> i can tell you cartels are

here they are here for multiple reasons. >> a drug scarttle a criminal organization. like any business there is a chain of command with each cartel controlling its own supply chain. manufacturing, smuggling, transport, enforcement beings accounting and distribution. >> the drug cartels, the kingpins rely on that to make them their money. so they are pushing the drugs up here. it's those street gangs that are selling the drugs, making the profits to send back to mexico. >> today there are five large mexican cartels, the gulf cacialghts, zetas and the jalisco new generation competes for routes into texas while the tijuana and is i low a cartels fight to move sin they is working to get deadly out of our communities. >> today multi billion dollars business. they smuggle recommendation once

over the border the u.s. based members deliver the drugs to street gangs. >> someone will go to that city and set up a distribution center and then once they're there, get those drugs out to the lower, nonaffiliated cartel people who are actually controlling the streets. >> in reality anyone involved with illegal drug trade in the u.s. is working for a cartel whether they know it or not. bret? >> bret: william, thank you. ♪ >> last night we brought you an exclusive interview with former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, former south carolina governor and perspective 2024 presidential cap democrat nikki haley. but hali is getting heavy criticism from another perspective candidate. former secretary of state mike pompeo. senior national correspondent rich edson takes a look this evening. >> do i think i could be that leader? yes. >> former united nations ambassador nikki haley getting as close as any republican to challenging former president

donald trump poor the 2024 nomination. hali says she is still considering an official announcement putting her among former vice president mike pence and former secretary of state mike pompeo. >> what's your timeline. >> sometime in the spring. >> to capture the g.o.p. nomination former trump officials will have to separate themselves from each other and their former boss. >> i don't think you need to be 80 years old to go be a leader in d.c. >> and now some infighting among these republicans. pompeo is releasing a book next week. if there it he accuses hali of scheming with ivanka trump and jared kushner to replace then vice president mike pence on the 2020 ticket. on "special report," hali denied it. >> mike pence is my friend. there's no truth to it and mike even says in his book it's just gossip. >> a source close to pence responded to hali's alleged maneuvering with three letters lol. pence has been on his own book tour meeting with influential pastors at mega churches, leaders faith movement who largely backed trump in 2016 and

2020 and now withholding endorsements to see how this primary field plays out. trump has called evangelize leaders disloyal for doing so. a church spokesperson refused to comment on hali's interest on running. taylor the head of the trump super pac maga inc. called hali another career politician whose ambitions matter more than her words. that's the last thing we need. >> the fight for staffing is already on. a source with pence's policy organization advancing american freedom tells fox news the group has just approached the executive director of hali advocacy group stand for america. bret? >> bret: rich, thanks. up next, the panel with the march for life an the latest on the president's classified documents scandal. but, first, as we head to break. we remember one of our own. we are heart broken that our colleague allen has died from a heart attack. allen was senior vice president of news and politics. he has been a leader here for

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>> i'm not just here to defend all laws defend all life. if they can do it once they can do it over and over again. it's going to mean more to people. the boom is moving and we are gaining row momentum. >> the fight has to continue and it's going to be in a different manner, you know, working with the states more. >> we are here to support the

unborn. it's as simple as that. we are giving the voice to the voiceless. >> march for life in washington, the first since the overturning of roe v. wade and this as we get some new polls out from monmouth. how much would it bother you if abortion was banned nationwide a lot? 57%? a little? 13%? not at all, 30%. asked which comes closest to your view on abortion, always legal 36%. legal with limitations, 30%. illegal with exceptions, 22%. always illegal 10%. with that bring in our panel. harold ford jr. former tennessee congressman co-host of the five. mollie hemingway editor and chief at the federalist. and jason riley wall street columnist and senior fellow at the manhattan institute. mollie, it's interesting to see changes on the issue of abortion and how much it played in the midterms this past year. >> well, we had for so many years no ability to even weigh in on what abortion policies should be. because of that roe v. wade ruling. with dobbs.

the american people are allowed now to have an input in what abortion law should be in their states and nationwide. and you note in that polling, seemed pretty favorable to abortion supporters, even in that poll, the 64% of people who would like at least some protections for unborn children and their mothers and that's what is so significant about dobbs. it now allows people to work to have some protection for children whether you want full protections or just a little and that's where, you know, at the march for life today excellent reporting on this show on what was going on there. there is a move and focus now on what can be done at the state level. >> bret: harold? >> well, first off, great to be here on friday and sad news about alan and best to his family. i believe i'm pro-choice but i believe in the constitutionally protected right to protest and march for whatever you believe in. and we are at a moment in our country's history where roe was

the law of the land for 50 years. the court decided with a case before them to overturn that. and there are those who now are focusing their efforts in the states who are pro-choice. there's an effort in washington still underway and i think i heard from the march for life, marchers in some of those behind this effort today that a national ban on abortion is something that many are seeking. your polling data, bret, just showed, i believe, that showed the 10% of americans, at least in the poll data you showed, polling data you showed, wanted abortion to be illegal all together. it's good for my party, from a partisan standpoint in elections for this to be on the ballot but i hope for the sake ever the country that we can find some agreement on when abortions might be allowed. some exceptions that should be imparted or imposed. because this is an issue that in many ways rips at the heart of the country. so, i support protests and

marching, whatever your position may be. but what i do support more than that is trying to bring the country, trying to build some consensus around an issue and around a set of solutions and outcomes that we can all -- can all live with i hope that's where we end up. >> jesse: jason, if you ask the question about late term abortions the numbers are very small who are in support of it. but that's not the question that's often asked. how do you see this issue politically and where it stands on this day? >> well, i think what we're seeing is that the dobbs decision hasn't settled the matter in terms of the national debate. in one sense, it's where some of us thought it should have been all along, which is at the state level. but now the real work begins in terms of people who are opposed to abortion, trying to convince people at the state and local level. to take their side. and we saw a lot of republicans

struggling with that in the midterm elections. there wasn't a lot of agreement on -- if there should be compensations. if there should be exceptions what those exceptions should be and so forth. going forward we will see that play out and, frankly, the pro-life crowd has its work cut out in terms of establishing what -- what should qualify as a true pro-life position. and so that's where i see the debate going forward, bret. >> bret: all right. so, the sights and sounds of this week really dealt with this documents story. the white house taking still a ton of questions about it. take a listen. >> is the president going to his home in rehoboth beach today. does that have anything to do with classified documents being found at wilmington? >> as you know he often travels to delaware on the weekends. i just don't have anything else to share. >> bret: now, the "new york times" saying 68 days of silence, why the white house

stayed mum on classified documents. advisers to president biden calculated that the justice department would view possession of the documents as little more than a good faith mistake. mollie, what about this? where does this go? >> we do have a department of justice ha has gotten quite politicized. they unwisely raided the previous president's home over a classified documents dispute and then they spent two months basically covered up that biden had a classified document issue before they, you know, kind of came forward with a little bit of information on it. i think the biden team has done a very good job of spinning this and they have a very friendly media that can help them with that. but there are so many questions that need to be answered from why, exactly, was an attorney looking for documents when he came across them in, you know, the office space in d.c. and do these documents deal with the biden family business? we know they involve ukraine and china. two locations where the biden family business, where you give known members of the biden

family in exchange for stuff we're not quite clear about. those are places where the biden family business is quite active and so, there is a lot that needs to be known here that we don't know yet. and they are hoping that people stop asking questions but nothing about the way they have been acting makes people want to stop asking questions. >> bret: harold, jonathan turley have no regrets. president biden breaks long silence. he writes it's never a good idea go public with expresses of no regret on being investigated whether you took classification laws seriously. 9 statement was out of the alec baldwin school of criminal defense and claiming that the gun did it. fortunately the president is not yet saying that the core vote did it -- corvette did it. harold? >> harold: both of those are serious issues i won't conflate and jonathan whyo was probably trying to play light-hearted about this. i think what is happening with president biden is serious. i have said this all along. the timeline between november 14th and january 5th when a u.s. attorney was asked

to look into this body, attorney general november 14th. and then a special counsel was appointed on january 5th, which means that there's something serious about this. democrats who say that's not the case, i think, are wrong and republicans who try to compare this directly to president trump's case are not being honest. i don't always agree with mollie but i agree with her in this regard. transparency, i think, is key here. and i hope that president biden, who has rightly so, and someone who is my friend, prided himself on and staked his campaign and candidacy and now presidency on being transparent. i hope they are that way. this is not to say that there is anything untoward or illegal that's been done. i do think many of the questions that are being asked, particularly about the damage assessment from an intelligence standpoint deserve more transparency and answers and forthrightness than what's being provided but we should all take a break here. there's a special counsel. he should get to the bottom of this. but i only mention that transparency of this white house, because that's what president biden, when he ran and now as he is serving, that's one

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bret just received the latest customs and border protection immigration at the southern border. see the report there, 25 # 1,487 migrant encounters in december alone that makes deas the busiest month ever recorded by customs and border patrol. there have been 717,660 encounters in the first three months of the fiscal year that does not count so-called got-aways with that we are back with the panel. the breaking news there, jason, these numbers are astronomical. people can't even get their head around them. if you look at this at the size of cities, they are bigger than some cities in the u.s. in population. what about this? >> the two things going on here, bret. one is that there's a significant labor shortage in the u.s. there are far more job openings, millions more job openings than there are people looking for work. that news gets across the border

people come to address that issue. so long as the people coming believe that if they get into this country even illegally there is a good chance they will be able to stay, they're going to continue to come. and the biden administration will not address that issue. it will not make it clear that they will not get into the country or that they will be turned away at the border and until they do that, these people will continue to come. >> bret: i think we have to put these numbers in different perspective because people kind of glazes over. the overall number is about the size of denver, the population, mollie? >> well, it's not surprising that this is happening. since the biden administration worked so hard to tear down any kind of border security or protection that had been put in place under the previous administration. what makes this such a problem in part is that we have completely ceded control of our border to these cartels and as was mentioned earlier in the show now that there is cartel activity in to larry county,

it's a very security issue human rights issue. not just about the people crossing the border but also about the drugs unbecoming to have a country with no borders. no interest in d.c. to deal with this. >> bret: harold? >> this is a national security issue. i would hope that now that the republicans have the majority in the house, i hope that one of the first things they do in addition to the things they are doing now is to propose a very serious, if not aggressively and tough border security bill. force democrats and force this white house to work with them. joe biden has also staked himself out as someone who can negotiate and negotiate a real deals. they should challenge him on that because this is, as mollie said a national security issue more than anything else.

>> bret: all right. let's do a quick winners and losers. jason, first to you, winner and then loser? >> well, my winner who is the person who leaked the supreme court dobbs decision overturning roe v. wade who continues to stay one step ahead of investigators and my loser is john kerry for his incredibly narcissistic remarks at the world economic forum about saving t planet from climate change. >> bret: mollie. >> philadelphia flier's defense man who declined to wear a gay pride jersey because of his russian orthodox christian faith. jersey selling out. loser scholars in northern virginia who schools have not told them about that they are being national merit scholars and governor youngkin is working on. >> bret: all right, winner, loser, harold. >> winner those of us who love the nfl. four games this weekend. 8 quarter backs under 30.

new generation being ushered in. go giants. i love eagles but go giants. my loser george santos who he has embellished a lot of things about resume and even about where his mom bless her and where she was when she passed but he took it a step too far when he stole money from a veteran trying to raise money to have surgery for his dog. i got three dogs and that wasn't right. >> bret: that wasn't right. there you have go. panel, thank you. enjoy the games this weekend. ♪ ♪ it's friday, you know what that means. "notable quotables." >> it's absurd to have a climate charge when the world is trying to solve of the climate crisis. >> dealing with osi find boomer built bureaucracy that they are unable to fix. >> money money money money money. >> almost $32 trillion in debt. how could you do this to a future generation. >> fiscally demented, i think. [laughter]

they don't quite get did? you can't scare the bejesus out of people saying we are going to get rid of social security. >> our cities are being undermind we don't deserve this. >> we must have solution for broken system. >> any comment for republicans calling for you're impeachment. >> good morning. >> i'm following what the lawyers have told me to do. >> how long before a body starts to smell. >> reparations was something promised and something owed. >> i stand here humble, being the first sitting president to speak as ebenezer sunday service. >> are you going to run for president? >> we need to go in a new direction and can i be that leader? yes. i think i can be that leader. >> [inaudible] being 5'2", 5'3" didn't make it happen. >> one week in washington. monday on "special report," we'll talk with indiana republican senator todd young about his recent trip to taiwan.

please join shannon "fox news sunday," he or she guest co-chairs the house problem solvers conference democrats and republicans see if they find common ground. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. "jesse watters primetime" starts right now. jesse, do you have a bet with harold ford? i mean, he is calling for the giants to beat the eagles. >> jesse: i heard that and the man is from tennessee so what the hell is he talking about? [laughter] >> bret: we'll see. >> jesse: right. go eagles. >> bret: see you, buddy. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: when things aren't going great, sometimes you need a rebrand like giving yourself a nickname. >> george, what is that? it's nothing. it's got no snap, no zip. i need a nickname that makes people light up. >> you mean like liza? [laughter] >> i was